Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most liberal activists wanted for the Senator to make a move. If he chose to run, they would support him. If he chose not to enter the face, they would forgo the attempt to unseat the President. But "here Lowenstein differed" writes Halberstam. "He was determined to go ahead whether or not Kennedy made the race." After an unsuccessful appeal to George McGovern, Lowenstein approached Eugene McCarthy a liberal Senator from Minnesota. McCarthy agreed to head the alternative ticket, and Lowenstein threw his energy into the campaign...
...Michael Novak, a leading conservative critic of the pastoral letter, argues that the U.S. must be ready to use its nuclear arsenal, if need be, "to prevent the most awful aggression against innocent peoples here and elsewhere." In addition, the bishops' proposal that the U.S. and NATO should forgo the first use of nuclear arms against an overwhelming Soviet conventional attack would probably mean that Europe would be lost...
...November 1981, as the U.S. and the Soviet Union were preparing to meet in Geneva, President Reagan proposed the "zero option": NATO would forgo its planned deployment altogether if the Soviets would dismantle a11 of their aging SS-4 and SS-5 missiles, plus all 250 of the more accurate SS-20s then in place (the current number: 351). This offer came to be widely criticized in Western Europe, first by the peace movement and later by some governments, as inflexible and unrealistic. Yet it appears that the zero-option concept originated in Western Europe. It had been mentioned...
...about Soviet SS-20s or U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles. Reason: the centerpiece of the Soviet position is the demand that the 162 nuclear missiles under independent French and British control be counted alongside those of the U.S. If the proposal were accepted, the U.S. would in effect forgo its deployment plans while allowing the Soviets to keep many of their SS-20s in place. As former State Department Counsellor Helmut Sonnenfeldt told participants at TIME'S Atlantic Alliance Conference last week: "The problem of the British and French forces is probably the single most difficult political...
Last month the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research offered its recommendations on these questions in a 255-page report, "Deciding to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment." The study, the seventh published by the prestigious panel of doctors, lawyers, theologians and others since it started work three years ago, concludes that a competent patient, one who is able to understand treatment choices and their consequences, has the all-but-absolute right to decide his own fate. Declares Dr. Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician and principal author of the report: "An adult...